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  Gerrit Eicker 08:42 on 7. July 2010 Permalink | Reply

  Twitter: “Twitter @earlybird Exclusive Offers are special time-bound deals, sneak-peeks, and events that are promoted by the official Twitter @earlybird account. We partner with select advertisers and retweet offers that they have crafted only for the Twitter community. Our advertising partners determine the terms of the offer, including availability, amount, and price. As with other forms of advertising from Twitter, we are focused on bringing value to our users and will keep your interests in mind as we develop this program. … Does Twitter make money from this? – Yes, we earn revenue through our relationships with advertisers. Our focus will be to try and make these deals interesting and of value to you. We take pride in being selective about the type of deals we highlight and hope they will be an exciting way to start your day.”

  NYT: “The idea borrows from private and limited-time sale sites, like Gilt, Groupon and Woot (which Amazon.com recently acquired), a recent trend in online shopping. It also takes advantage of what companies like Dell, which attributes millions of dollars in sales to posting deals on Twitter, are already doing. … The first deal will appear soon, Mr. Garrett said. They will initially be nationwide, but Twitter is considering offering deals specific to cities or countries later on. If @earlybird takes off, Twitter could become a competitor to Groupon and the many other local daily deal sites, as well as to Woot, Gilt and others.”

  VB: “Twitter is taking a page from some heavily venture-backed startups in flash sales and social buying like Gilt Groupe and Groupon that offer limited-time only deals sometimes paired with built-in viral mechanics that deepen the discount if friends are recruited. It’s not clear if viral mechanics will come to play as central a role to EarlyBird as they have been for other social buying startups. Right now, it looks like a very simple first come, first served model.”

  TC: “Twitter outlines that it has deals with select advertisers in place, but welcomes suggestions of a product/event sent by @reply to @earlybird. Nevertheless, since Twitter clearly looks at this like a significant potential revenue stream, they are keen on emphasizing that it will be selective about the type of deals they highlight.”

  Guardian: “If early reports from Coca-Cola are anything to go by, promoting products directly through Twitter is proving a lucrative return on modest investment. Speaking to the Financial Times last week, Carol Kruse, vice-president for global interactive marketing at Coca-Cola, said the number of impressions (views of the sponsored trending topic) Coca-Cola had received in the short period from launch had been ‘phenomenal’ – 86m in 24 hours with an ‘engagement rate’ of 6%, compared with the average 0.02% of users engaging with a standard online advertisement.”

  RWW: “Opt-in subscription to advertising as part of a user’s social stream is likely to be a very important model in making social media financially viable. Facebook today unveiled a radical new subscription recommendation feature that is similar if more sophisticated looking and non-commercial so far.”

  TNW: “Apparently Twitter just hasn’t branched out quite enough to keep itself happy yet. Bearing that in mind, the same birds that carry away the failwhale seem to have some spare time on their hands, so they’re out scouring the Internet looking for bargains.”

  RWW: “It’s a nicely poetic slide into second base when it comes to Twitter advertising. @earlybird focuses on the ‘you saw it first’ experience that is one of the main attractors of users to the Twitter service.“

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